Bud Light, Big Corn Get Into Weirdest Twitter Feud Ever Over Super Bowl Ad

Brewer feuds with corn growers after commercial knocking corn syrup.
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This year’s Super Bowl ads largely ducked controversy ― with perhaps one unexpected exception.

A series of Bud Light ads slammed rival brewers for using corn syrup:

MillerCoors spokesman Pete Marino fired off a tweet defending the brews, and noted that Bud Light’s parent company uses high-fructose corn syrup in some of its other products:

The National Corn Growers Association, an industry group financed by corn growers, was downright offended:

Bud Light’s parent company quickly tried to make amends.

“Anheuser-Busch fully supports corn growers and will continue to invest in the corn industry,” a spokesman told the Wall Street Journal. “Bud Light’s Super Bowl commercials are only meant to point out a key difference in Bud Light from some other light beers. This effort is to provide consumers transparency and elevate the beer category.”

But observers on Twitter had a much different ― and often far funnier ― reaction to the kerfuffle:

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